I know the part about all functions behaving that way. But because it looked to me that it has a similar behavior or use as the 'help' command, I thought I would change it for consistency. I just don't know what defines a function versus a command.

If this change is ever made, the new patch also changes deftypefn from "Function File" to "Command".

ALL functions that take character string arguments may be called as "commands". Listing them that way in the docs is OK, but then people don't understand that it is possible to call them with the function-style syntax.

I'm not sure of the best way to handle this, but I think it should be done consistently for all functions that are commonly called with command-style syntax.

I thought that "news" can be used without parentheses, similarly to the help command. As such, I just have a very simple changeset to remove them from the help text (and the displayed message from pkg).